Truman, Palestine, and the press : shaping conventional wisdom at the beginning of the Cold War
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Truman, Palestine, and the press : shaping conventional wisdom at the beginning of the Cold War
（Contributions in American history, no. 144）
Greenwood Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-228) and index
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内容説明
In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the role of the mass media, public opinion, and the Zionists in the evolution of America's Palestine policy during the Truman administration. Taking issue with recent revisionist historians who argue that Truman had little difficulty manipulating public opinion, Evensen claims that the press and an aroused public opinion successfully frustrated the President's course on Palestine and elicited his support of the United Nations' partition of Jewish and Arab states and Truman's early recognition of Israel.
Evensen emphasizes the development of a conventional wisdom that placed the Middle East at the center of U.S. strategic planning and saw limiting Soviet penetration as a primary goal. Within this context, he shows a divided Truman administration, which was uncertain how to act on the Jewish state. Reluctantly, the administration initially supported the UN's vote to partition the region; then, as Palestine erupted into violence, it attempted to abandon this decision. Interpreting the President's action as a gutless appeasement of the Arabs and an indication of his fear of the Soviets, the media, reflecting the public's Cold War fears, confronted the administration's policy in the Middle East and frustrated the President's effort to abandon the partition scheme. The media's role in reflecting and shaping competing visions of reality, which became the conventional wisdom of policy making, is a key part of this study.
目次
Preface Introduction: Riding the Tiger Palestine and the Coming of the Cold War The Debate to Create a Committee of Inquiry: Zionists Divide and Fail to Conquer Reporting the Second Exodus: Zionist Propaganda, British Bungling and a High Seas Melodrama The Decision to Partition War Scare Month and the Reversal on Partition Reversing the Reversal: The Limits of Presidential Leadership and the Creation of Israel Conclusion: The Press, the President and Public Opinion: The Palestine Case Bibliography Index
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